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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Total church membership, for what it may be worth, is now equal to 60.3% of the population of the continental U.S.-a gain of 2.8% for 1954. Protestant increase: 2.3%. Roman Catholic increase: 2.9%. Population increase...
...surface, the record has been amazing. Setting aside half its budget for defense. Turkey has put 22 divisions into NATO, doubled its output of steel, cement, textiles. It has built 7,000 miles of road and started a dozen multipurpose dam projects. Its most spectacular gain has been in agriculture, where, with the help of subsidies and 40,000 imported tractors, it has doubled the tilled land and turned the country into an exporter of wheat and cotton...
...strategy paid off with 52 of the 100 Bürgerschaft (city-state parliament) seats for Kaisen's Socialists, a gain of six and a clear majority for the first time. Christian Democrats were held to 18 seats. The election entitled Bürgermeister Kaisen to convert Bremen's coalition government into a wholly Socialist affair, but instead he invited Christian Democrats and Free Democrats, their right-wing cousins, to go right on helping him run Bremen...
...basic confusion has set in, be it in the minds of the multitude or the business practices of the colleges struggling to gain recognition of one form or another, between skills and sheer physical attempts at masochism...
Bill Meigs accomplished a very rare feat last year. On a Harvard team which had a luke-warm (4-3-1) season, and which drew a minimum of national attention to its games, Meigs was able to earn enough votes to gain a place on the Associated Press All-American second team...